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D. Raghunandan
The Significance of US-Hosted Climate Summit
07 May 2021
The US is far behind the curve of emissions reduction pledges and actual performance of European Union and United Kingdom.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
US’s China Policy at Inflection Point
19 Apr 2021
A more resolute Chinese fist is pushing back at the US, while red lines are being marked on the ground.
Newsclick Report
US Special Envoy’s Visit Smokescreen to Hide US Inaction in Mitigating Climate Change: TACC
05 Apr 2021
Despite being one of the highest emitters of greenhouse gases, the US government has been continually attempting to “pass on the burden of climate change mitigation to other countries, especially…
PTI
Biden Signs Executive Order Rejoining Paris Climate Agreement, to Come Into Effect February 19
21 Jan 2021
Donal Trump had pulled out of the Paris accord that committed the US and 187 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures below 2C above pre-industrial levels and attempting to limit them…
Sandipan Talukdar
Carbon Emission Data During Pandemic Lockdowns Provide Insights on Challenges Ahead in Future
20 Jan 2021
The data for 2020 showed that even after massive worldwide lockdowns, the emission level did not decrease to the levels laid down by the Paris Agreement 2015.
D. Raghunandan
The Climate Cloud and a Thin Silver Lining
18 Dec 2020
As many as 45 countries, among them 24 high-emission nations, announced additional cuts than those in their PA commitments by 2030, either at the summit, or over the past few months, despite the…
Sandipan Talukdar
COVID-19 Lockdown Didn’t Help Much in Reducing Carbon Emission: UN Report
11 Sep 2020
The report found that due to lockdowns, the daily level emissions of greenhouse gases went down by 17% in comparison to 2019 in the month of April. But, as the world came back to work, emissions rose…
Sandipan Talukdar
Brazilian Amazon Destruction Heightens in Bolsonaro Regime Even as Links of Pandemic Risk to Deforestation Evident
11 Aug 2020
A research paper, published on August 5 in Nature, analysed 6,800 ecological communities from six continents in 376 host species and concluded that land use and biodiversity loss has a global and…
Ayaskant Das
Modi Govt Allows Low-grade Coal in Thermal Power Plants Risking COP21 Commitments
02 Jun 2020
The move is perceived to encourage private investments in commercial coal mining through an assumption that capital costs will decrease.
Tejal Kanitkar
Story of COP25: Climate Ambition in the Face of Climate Inaction
17 Dec 2019
The global climate talks that ended in Madrid recently were really about asking developing countries to carry the burden of 150 years of First World privilege.